Patrick P. Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

• Maintained the daily/monthly invoice recon and developed reports for BI posting.
• Identified causes of significant or unusual business trends and variances by conducting research (e.g., run reports, run queries) via internal function meetings, data verification, and/or transaction level research.
• Created, updated, and prepared month end reporting documentation including Spend analysis, Trial Balance waterfall, Mitigating Reports, DPO/DSO/Float, Volume Forecast, Margin Analysis, etc.
• Coordinated in data gathering and analysis opportunities with F&A and partnered with teams to highlight key opportunities and issues and support a steady rhythm of reporting to leadership.
• Prepared monthly financial deck for Director/CFO for all payables and receivables throughout the US, MX, CAD, NL, and UK business units ($5B annually)
• Collaborated with Accounting to assist in the monthly close and reporting leveraging existing systems and processes for maximum efficiency.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Responsible for month/year end full cycle closing, maintained the daily/monthly invoice recon, and developed reports for BI posting
• Develop, maintain and ensure ongoing compliance with SOX internal control documentation and testing.
• Headed the conversion of the financial system from Microsoft Great Plains to Oracle Fusion. Including testing, development, data transmission, API creation, support and implementation
• Handle all automation development requests within the accounting department.

Alpharetta, Georgia

• Create performance standard measurements, monthly tracking of key metrics, organizing teams for success, and controlling efficient and effective AP processes. Resulting in improved DPO, reduced work duplication.
• Implemented new API solutions to increase supplier account visibility as well as provided company data mining opportunities.
• Improve, implement and educate employees and management on new and/or updated policies and procedures
• Coaching, hiring decisions, and performance monitoring. Training staff: provide clear instructions to team members and make important decisions.
• Managed a team of 8 direct reports as well as 2 offshore teams. 60 team members on site as well as over 100 offshore

Alpharetta, GA

• Head of Accounts Payable Payments, Quick Pay, and Intermodal Teams
• Handled all month end reports at including Advance reporting and reconciling as well as tying accounts with General Ledger
• Improved processes for ACH payments as well as Intermodal drafts
• Responsible for completing all claim offset request as well as sending the monthly offset report
• Multiple other duties include: Training new employees, processing credit card payments for loads,releasing of payment batches, cutting of payables checks, handling stop payments and ACHreversals, managing employee’s.

Alpharetta, GA

• Headed up Accounting Comcheck team responsible for maintenance of Comcheck such as voiding, applying, and moving Comcheck to loads
• Managed the Phone and Email team, distributed email sections to team members and phone calls, included daily reporting of metrics
• Responsible for creating ACH, Quick Pay, and check batches as well as reconciling and uploadingeach of the payment files

Alpharetta, GA

• Part of the Accounts Payable incident resolution team responsible for resolving problems with invoiced and suppliers
• Trained new employees coming into Coyote on the Accounts Payable procedures and policies, also created new training handbook for Accounts Payable employees
• Part of the Quickpay team responsible for processing payments for carriers the same day invoices are paid

• Worked on projects involving both financial and accounting technologies as well as to assist with other needs within the company. Including E911 Automation, creating item relationships, and building price lists..
• Extensive work with Oracle Financial software, including work with billing, shipping, inventory, and accounts receivable.
• Creating test sequences for different projects including mapping for the upgrade to the new Oracle application
• Extensive work with Microsoft Office Suite, including creating and presenting tutorials for the upgrade to Microsoft Office Suite 2007
• Used Microsoft Access in many different ways to automate different functions
• Worked with the distribution center to improve productivity